TAAL: Grove Box & Music Studio

Tap out beats on real drum pads, sample anything, sculpt every hit, and perform live with DJ mixer style effects. A full pocket drum machine and beat maker with a fast, low-latency sound engine, so it feels tight, not laggy.

🥁 PLAY
• Up to 16 drum pads with instant response, like a launch pad you actually play
• 6 pad layouts you can switch any time without losing sounds: Compact (4), Grid 6, Classic 8, Wide 8, Grid 12, Grid 16
• 64-voice polyphony for fat, layered hits
• Pad haptics and keep-screen-on options
• Color, name, copy and swap whole pads by dragging

🎚️ SHAPE EVERY HIT
• Stack up to 8 sounds per pad, played Selected, Cycle, Up/Down or Random
• Tune up or down 12 semitones
• Volume plus extra gain boost for quiet samples
• Pan left to right
• Trim start/end and Reverse
• Choke groups (open/closed hi-hat behavior)
• Mono or Poly per pad

🎛️ PER-PAD FX
• Filter on every pad: Low-Pass, High-Pass or Band-Pass, 40Hz to 18kHz cutoff with resonance
• Drive and saturation for warmth and grit
• Reverb and Delay sends per pad

🎹 SEQUENCER, MAKE BEATS
• Step sequencer up to 32 steps, program or tap in live
• Swing for groove
• Per-step parameter locks: chance-to-play, pitch, level, pan, start point, reverse, plus filter, drive and sends on mono pads
• Probability per step for evolving, never-repeating grooves
• Metronome and 1-bar count-in (never recorded into your takes)
• Tempo 40 to 240 BPM

🎵 PATTERNS & SONGS
• Build reusable patterns and chain them into full songs
• Drag to arrange, reorder, duplicate, with transitions that land right on the beat

🎙️ SAMPLING & MICROPHONE
• Record from your microphone (up to 30s) with smart auto-trim
• Import your own audio and sounds
• Waveform editor: pinch-to-zoom, drag trim handles, animated playhead
• Crop a sample to the exact slice and save it as a new sound

🎚️ MIXER & SOUND BOARD
• Per-pad volume, pan, mute and solo, all live, like a compact DJ mixer and sound board
• Stereo output metering

🌊 MASTER FX
• Compressor with presets (Light, Glue, Punch, Aggressive) plus advanced attack/release/gain
• Distortion (Subtle, Dirt, Crush)
• Reverb: mix, decay, damping, pre-delay, width (Room, Plate, Hall, Ambience)
• Delay: free or tempo-synced (1/4 to 1/16, dotted, triplet) with tape-style glide
• Master limiter to keep it clean

⚡ LIVE EFFECTS
Tap-to-engage, beat-synced FX over your whole mix:
• Filter sweep with resonance
• Gate, beat-synced chop
• Roll and beat-repeat for stutters
• Tape-stop brake
• Echo throws with feedback
• Live mute/solo grid
All smooth and click-free.

🎼 DRUM KITS & PROJECTS
• 8 bundled drum kits and sound banks: Funk Foundry, Indie Garage, Midnight Jazz, Studio Gloss, Vintage Vinyl '79, Soul Acrolite '68, Irekid Taal, and a full Indian Tabla kit
• Audition sounds before loading
• Save your own drum kits, build full projects, autosave
• Record your performance to WAV (post-FX) and share anywhere, including whole songs

Whether you want a classic drum machine, a hands-on groove box, a beat maker for your next track, or just a fun drum pad and sound board to jam on, Taal Groove Box has it.

Recent changes:
Hello, world - TAAL Groove Box 1.0 is live!
Tap, record, layer, remix: your next beat is a fingertip away.
Not sure where to start? Open a starter groove and make it yours.
Go make some noise!